Swallows and Amazons

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Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome


My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Six children camp out on their very own island and have a series of piratical adventures, both real and imagined.

Pure delightful fun, right from the first page. Full of kids with good sense and great imaginations, and the best kind of adults who aid and abet where needed. And not often ruined by the dubious 1929 background gender and race issues, either. I'm not always the best judge of what kids will like, but I enjoyed the heck out of this now and I would have loved it when I was ten.

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[jen-errik.livejournal.com]

Coming out of lurkdom to say I did love this when I was ten. It was a blow when the school brought us to see the film that year, and it turned out the children were all quite English.
The other in the series that I loved was 'We didn't mean to go to sea' even though it's only got the Swallows and not the Amazons. I've still got a copy of that somewhere.

[lightreads.livejournal.com]

It turns out I did read one of these books as a kid, and loved it. Coot Club, I believe. But no one ever told me it was one in a series, which is a freaking tragedy.